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1. Officers of the Society for 2019 were: James Kelly (president); Ella Kavanagh (treasurer); Rebecca Stuart (secretary); Chris Colvin (web editor); Deirdre Foley (social media officer); Catherine Cox and Graham Brownlow (journal editors); Jonathan Wright (book reviews); Juliana Adelman, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Eoin McLaughlin and Matthew Stout (committee members); and Catherine Cox (representative on the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences).
Rebecca Stuart replaced Juliana Adelman as secretary during the year.
2. Journal Volume 46 of the journal is scheduled to appear in 2019. It is with the printer. Papers continue to be available online as soon as the peer review process has been successfully completed. Facilitated by SAGE, submitting to the journal is now managed through ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iesh). The transition has been smooth for those submitting papers. Please see the journal editors’ report.
3. Annual conference, University College Cork: The annual conference was organised by Eoin McLaughlin, Ella Kavanagh, Mervyn O’Driscoll and Fergal O’Connor and was held on 6 and 7 of December in Lapp’s Quay, University College Cork. The Connell Lecture was given by Professor Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin) on ‘The Standard Errors of Persistence’.
The following papers were presented:
FRIDAY: Alan Fernihough (Queen’s University, Belfast): ‘Magnet or Bullet? Rail and Ireland’s Post-Famine Economic Development’; Sean Kenny (Lund University): ‘Irish GDP since Independence’; Rebecca Stuart (Central Bank of Ireland): ‘Monetary Regimes, the term structure, and recessions in Ireland, 1972–2018’; Susannah Deedigan: ‘“Take our mammy home to us for xmas”: Female political prisoners in Dublin 1940–3’; Morgan Wait (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘“Men – We are just sick of looking at them”: Women’s programming at Teilifís Éireann 1962–4’.
SATURDAY: Damian Shiels (Northumbria University): ‘Enduring Obligations, Enduring Relationships: Identifying Transatlantic Connections with Ireland in 19th Century America’; Luke McGrath (NUI Galway): ‘Measuring the Sustainability of Ireland’s Economic Development: A Historical Series of Irish Genuine Savings’; Gordon Warren (University College Cork): ‘Heaven’s Cent: Proposals for a Basic Income/National Dividend tendered by the Irish Social Credit Party in the 1930’s’; Elaine Callinan (Carlow College): ‘“Money is coming in with dreadful slowness”: The economics of electioneering to win votes in 1918 Ireland’; Robin Adams (Queen’s University, Belfast): ‘“Between the devil and the deep sea”: The defection of local tax collectors in the Irish War of Independence (1919–21)’; Sophia Traxler (University of Calgary): ‘The IRA and National Army: Legitimacy During the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, 1919–1923’; Daniel Cassidy (NUI Galway): ‘Exchange rates and trade: Ireland, 1698–1784’; Charles Read (University of Cambridge): ‘1866 and all that: Famine, Financial Crisis and Political Chaos in the British Empire’; Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh (NUI Galway): ‘Realising Horace Plunkett’s Vision for Developing Rural Ireland: The County Advisors and Irish Agricultural Improvement, 1901–1980’; Ian d’Alton (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘The anatomy of the southern Irish Protestant in 1922’; Andy Bielenberg (University College Cork): ‘The impact of the revolution on southern Irish Protestants’; Ida Milne (Carlow College): ‘“Fitting in” and myth-busting: 26 county Protestants and the GAA’; Brian Walker (Queen’s University, Belfast): ‘Protestant voices during the revolutionary period’; John-Paul McGauran (Sligo IT): ‘The Importance of Culture and Character as Strands of the Irish Poor Law Debate in the 1830s’; Clare O’Mahony (Technological University, Dublin): ‘Taking First Steps: The Experience of Early Foreign Direct Investors in Ireland’; Frank Barry (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘Ireland’s Industrial History as Reflected in the Largest Manufacturing Firms at EEC Entry’; Matthew Potter (Limerick Museum): ‘The Accidental Museum: The Establishment of Limerick Museum (1907–16)’; Declan O’Keefe (Clongowes Wood College): ‘COME UP FAIR! The Stonyhurst Game and other seasonal diversions in Jesuit education’; Jennifer Pope (Mary Immaculate College): ‘A Disastrous Outbreak: The impact of the epidemic in Mount St. Vincent Orphanage, Limerick, 1908’.